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Slight, grizzled Hugh Mulzac, ex-seaman, ex-mess boy, was catapulted front & center last week to become a Symbol of Negro participation in the war. When the Liberty freighter Booker T. Washington goes into service from California Shipbuilding's Los Angeles yard in mid-October, the Maritime Commission decided, she will be commanded by a British West Indies-born Brooklyn man, the first Negro to hold a U. S. master's certificate and the first to command a 10,500-ton ship. Captain Mulzac not only promised that he would be able to get qualified Negro officers...
...carpeted staircase of the Seaman's Club at Archangel was pounded smooth by feet from many lands. Cheerful, blue-bloused, smoking, joking, swearing lads greeted each other in universal monosyllables, sang the songs of home, danced with Russian girls. War, even in Russia, had its interludes...
...Seaman Kelly from London summed it up: "Hold on. We are with...
Aboard the carrier two carpenter's mates and a petty officer were trapped in a compartment five decks below. There was water all around them, a seaman said, and it was hopeless to try to get them out. The telephones were still working. Somebody called down: "Do you know what kinda fix you're in?" "Sure," they called back: "We know you can't get us out, but we got a helluva good acey-deucey game goin' down here right...
...seamen. Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, reviewing a parade of WAACs at Fort Des Moines, congratulated the leader of the winning group of marchers so successfully that Margaret M. Wheatley burst into tears. Emily Bradley Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor, enlisted in the WAVES in Boston as an apprentice seaman. Alfred Ryder, 26, long the "Sammy" of Radio's The Goldbergs, went off to Camp Upton as a private. Benito Mussolini, who used to pose at the controls of a plane, took an experimental, electric-drive car for a trial...